Project: Roma Inclusion Hub “Complex integration services for Roma inclusion in the Municipalities Maglizh and Nikolaevo”
Implemented in: Maglizh and Nikolaevo municipalities, Republic of Bulgaria
Program: “Local development, poverty reduction and enhanced inclusion of vulnerable groups”
Implementation period: 30.04.2022 – 30.04.2024
Lead organisation: Maglizh Municipality, Republic of Bulgaria
Partners: Nikolaevo Municipality; Community Center “Probuda -1869; Cross-Cultural Introduction AS (Norway); Non-Profit Organization “World Without Borders”, Stara Zagora
Project summary:
The project proposal envisages the creation of two new hubs to offer complex integrated health and social measures in support of Roma inclusion in the municipalities of Maglizh and Nikolaevo. The scope of the project activities will include children over 7 years of age, young people (12-29 years old) and adult representatives of the Roma minority. In addition to the medical examinations, the hubs specially equipped for this purpose will also host seminars, talks and other mass or individual forms of work with the target groups on topics such as prevention of early or unwanted pregnancy, hygienic care, improvement of health culture, prevention of early pregnancy. dropping out of the educational system, etc. We plan to increase the organizational capacity of municipalities by providing certification training for Roma educational and health mediators. For this purpose, Maglizh Municipality plans to build a new health center, which will have offices for medical examinations and health mediation will be carried out in the field of prevention in all its aspects. In the building of the National Community Center “Probuda-1869” in Maglizh there will be premises where psychologists, social workers, health and educational mediators will work with the target group. In Nikolaevo Municipality, two existing municipal buildings will be repaired and adapted for these activities. All experts involved in the project will provide mobile services within the planned activities in other settlements in the municipalities where persons from the target groups of the project have been identified.
Grant amount: 976 363 EUR
Contact: Yulia Todorova
email: julia.ans@gmail.com
phone: +359 877 165021
address: 6180 Maglizh, Bulgaria, 32 Treti mart Square
